A/N: I own nothing the song is Kiss it Better by he is we. Listen to it while reading please : )

He sits in his cell,

And he lays on his bed.

Covers his head and closes his eyes.

And then the memory begins. It had been a normal day. A normal date.

He and Tsu-chan had been far too busy trying to build up the Vongola Family lately to do anything with just the two of them. But that day was going to be different.

He had the day all planned out. They would go to a movie, then to her favorite park to sit by the lake for a while. Then when the moment was right he would bring out the little black box he had in his pocket.

He would look her in the eyes, drop to one knee and ask her that magical question every girl dreams of hearing. Her eyes would light up and she would say yes and they would live happily ever after. Well at least their version of it.

Everything was going perfectly. The movie he had chosen was a romantic comedy that had his Tsu-chan smiling the entire time. But then on the walk to the park everything went wrong.

He sees a smoking gun,

And the coward he ran.

And in his arms is the bleeding,

Love of his life.

The moment was still all too real for him. One second he was looking at her smiling face and the next he hears the gunshot that splits his world apart. The one that to this day rips his very soul to shreds.

Tsu-chan didn't have time to move and neither did he from such close range. The bullet hit her in her chest and red immediately boomed on her chest. She quickly collapsed into his arms already gasping and grasping at what time she had left.

He looks up for only a moment to see the man drop the gun, turn tail and run. Hearing a wheeze he looks down at the bleeding girl in his arms and falls to his knees. He puts her head in his lap and looks her in the eyes to see tears shining there.

And she cries,

Kiss it all better,

I'm not ready to go.

It's not your fault love,

You didn't know, you didn't know.

That was something he always did though. He always blamed himself. He did then and he did now. If only he had been faster. If only he had sensed the man sooner. If only he was more alert. If only.

He knew it was better not to dwell on 'if only's' but that was all he could do whenever the scene repeated beneath his closed eyelids.

She was too young. Still to pure and kind hearted. She was his everything. So how could she not blame him in some way for letting her go? How could she look at him with those eyes still full of love even when she was bleeding as she was?

Her hands are so cold,

And he kisses her face.

And says "Everything will be all right".

He kissed her forehead. He kissed each cheek. He kissed her nose, her eyelids. He finally laid a gentle kiss on her lips.

By then her hands were growing cold and her face was becoming so white. She looked nothing like the young vibrant girl that had just been holding his hand and walking by his side.

But he couldn't let her see him fall apart. She wouldn't want to leave him in tears. So he just started whispering sweet nothings into her hair. How she was beautiful. How everything would be alright. That when she got out of the hospital and was back at the mansion everyone would throw a huge party for her safe return.

And then she stopped breathing and his world stopped turning.

He noticed the gun,

And his rage grew inside.

He said "I'll avenge my lover tonight".

He could have stayed there and mourned her but the sudden rage that was building up was too great. He gently lay her head down and was about to pull out his weapon until he say the gun still lying on the back alley shortcut they had been taking.

It seemed fitting that the man who took the life of his beloved die with the same gun. So without thinking he picks up the gun and runs off in the direction he saw the man go.

The man had been overconfident. He had barely even gone 3 blocks when he caught up with him. He was surrounded by others in black suits like him but his face stood out. It would always stand out to the man who's lover he killed.

He raised the gun.

And she cried,

Kiss it all better,

I'm not ready to go.

It's not your fault love,

you didn't know, you didn't know.

Her last words. She spoke her last words to comfort him. He would never forget them. Even now 5 years later as he is lying down on a cold cot.

Now he sits behind prison bars,

25 to life and shes not in his arms.

He couldn't bring her back with a bullet to the heart,

Of the back of a man and tore his world apart.

It turns out the man who had killed his Tsu-chan had been the boss of the Camerio Family. He was a man with many contacts and much power.

When the Vendice found out he had shot the man 3 times in the heart and then assaulted his body with his own weapon they incarcerated him. Though he knew better. It was only because the man he killed had been of such high standing. If it had been anyone else he would still be free.

But because of that man….

He was all alone and his Tsu-chan was gone. Just gone.

He was only a memory,

All it is, is a memory.

hey, hey.

And as he lays there he starts to feel her presence like he does every night right before he drifts off to sleep. It's always the same. Just like when she was alive he can feel her sky flames wrap around him as if in an embrace and it just makes him remember even more about her.

He cries,

Stay with me until I fall asleep,

Stay with me.

The first memory is of them with the guardians back when they were younger. They are all smiling and laughing but the only smile he cares about is hers.

She turns to him and her smile becomes even brighter. She reaches out and grabs his hand and blushes. She was always so shy. Just another thing he had loved about her.

Stay with me until I fall asleep,

Stay with me.

The next is of a few years later at Christmas in Italy. It was the first Christmas they spent in the Vongola mansion. Tsu-chan was sitting on the floor by the brightly decorated tree with gift wrap strewn all around her.

She was opening his gift and when she pulled the lid off the box her eyes grew wide. She looked up at him as if to ask 'is it really okay?' and he just smiled.

Inside was the locket she had been wearing THAT day. The locket she wore every day. It had two pictures inside one with all the guardians and one with them under a sakura tree her head in his lap.

Stay with me until I fall asleep,

Stay with me.

The next memory was of the two of them at the top of a Ferris wheel at a carnival that had come to Namimori. It was the first time he told her he loved her.

And the first time she said "I love you too!"

Stay with me until I fall asleep,

Stay with me.

He knew she couldn't stay forever but these moments between waking and sleep were the only ones when he was happy. The only time when he is not so alone. Not so desperate for her.

It was the only time when the whole in his chest seemed to shrink a little bit in size.

He always fought sleep at these times yet he knew it was inevitable. He could not stay in this half-conscious state forever and he hated that more than anything.

Kiss it all better,

I'm not ready to go.

It's not your fault love,

You didn't know, you didn't know.

(Kiss it all better.)

Stay with me until I fall asleep,

Stay with me.

Little did he know during these moments when his eyes were closed and he was fighting sleep she was there watching. She was always watching. How could she possibly leave him? Did he not know how much she missed him too? Nothing was the same without him with her.

She never wanted to leave his side, but it took all day to work up the strength to manage this small amount of flame. She knew he would never be able to see her corporal form, so she hoped and prayed her flames would be enough. Enough to let him know she still loved him and always would.

Stay with me until i fall asleep,

Stay with me.

(kiss it all better.)

As his breathing started to even out she walked towards his bed. She just wanted to look at him. Her love, the one man she kept coming back for. The man she would always come back for until he would join her.

A part of her wished it would be a long time until that day came, but the selfish side wanted to hold him, hug him, and kiss him as soon as possible. So she merely stares at him as he drifts into sleep.

Stay with me until I fall asleep,

Stay with me.

And that's when she notices it. It is laying open on his chest as if a beacon to her and the world. She couldn't stop the tears from falling. The fact that he wore it made her so happy yet so sad. She should be the one wearing it. It had been a present to her after all. He shouldn't have to carry the burden of what it represented. A happy memory they could never return too.

Stay with me until I fall asleep,

Stay with me.

Staring up at her is the locket she got for Christmas when she was 17. All she sees though are their smiling faces looking up at her. And so for the first time she speaks.

"I will keep waiting for you. I love you."

And she swears she sees him smile in his sleep.

A/N: Okay so this is my first songfic and my first try at anything sad. How did I do?